Gone Away ~ The journal of Clive Allen in America

Did I Hear You Say?
10/12/2004

It's of an old friendOr enemyAn ever-present (once)Fear

Fear of what?You askAnd why that onceIn parentheses?

Does fear need a name?Oh I gave it oneOnceWhen it tried to ruleAnd I stared into pitiless eyesCan you know that?Have you been frozenIn motionless timeUnable to moveOr speakWhile that we call IFoughtThe namelessFor sanity?

Well I wonYou seeA hard time it wasBut I won

It is no small thing to be IAwareness brings its own responsibilityIt runs in the familyParanoia

Way
Now boys, now now.
I stopped by, looking for oars, yet twain I did naught did see. Have some patience, way-to-mad. Permit unctuosity. Date Added: 10/12/2004

Gone Away
Oiliness huh? Guess Way didn't think much of the poem or whatever it was. ROFLOL Date Added: 10/12/2004

Ned
I dunno, I keep thinking of Patrick McGoohan in the The Prisoner when I read it. You aren't really Patrick McGoohan are you? Date Added: 11/12/2004

Gone Away
Well I don't think I am.....is he still alive? But I know what you mean. ;) Date Added: 11/12/2004

Hannah
You could have mentioned you'd put this up! I just found it as I wanted to peruse comments.
Maybe I'm just mad (no, wait-- I'm Hannah) but I like it. I admit it's not in the same league with Ned's work, but we can't all be at the top of the ladder-- damn thing would fall over, and we'd all be killed.
I'm interpreting this poem in several ways. Thanks to a certain chat, I'm interpreting it in another way, which I wouldn't have seen before last night, so I suppose it's just as well I didn't know the poem was here.
I do actually enjoy poetry that can be taken several ways-- anything that causes my to think is good. So in my eyes, the poem is a success. Anyone who doesn't agree, gets eaten!
Date Added: 12/12/2004

Gone Away
You have found me out, Hannah. I don't write poetry, I merely put down thoughts in such a way that they can't be understood...by most people...well, I HOPE by most people. And I don't mind too much about those who do understand - they must be as insane as I am to do so, surely. It seems to me that poetry is really in the business of putting emotion on paper and I'm lousy at that. :D Date Added: 12/12/2004

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